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Nine Reasons Why Human-Caused Climate Change Is Real

WC’s readers, for the most part, sensibly accept the reality of anthropogenic climate change. But if those readers are like some of WC’s friends, there are folks who deny that reality. To help WC’s readers deal with those difficult friends, WC offers a graphic developed by the Environmental Defense Fund, with WC’s annotations on the right. The numbers on WC’s notes refer to the numbers on EDF’s graphic.

Ask your buddies if they’d rely on three doctors who told them they were fine when 97 other docs told them they had cancer.

There’s a tenth consideration also: increasingly, major multinational corporations and even the U.S. Department of Defense are planning for the consequences of climate change. Even Exxon Mobil. If the multi-nationals who lobbied against anthropogenic climate change are hedging their bets, maybe our climate change denying should as well.

Remember that these nine separate lines of argument all agree on anthropogenic climate change. You climate change denying buddies may still reject the evidence, but perhaps this will make it just a little harder.